Female industrial employment and the Brazilian economic crisis

Helena Hirata () and John Humphrey ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 1984, vol. 4, issue 4, 400-418

Abstract: Female industrial employment grew rapidly in the nineteen seventies, but the sexualdivision of labour remained very strong. This raises the possibility of women’s employmentnot being disproportionately reduced as a result of the economic crisis in the nineteeneighties. A study of a large electrical factory in São Paulo revealed that management hadclearly discriminatory criteria for selection of workers to be dismissed, but in the absence ofa change in the sexual division of labour, the reduction of women ‘s share of employment inthe factory was merely short-term and cyclical. However, the labour force was restructuredin other ways during the initial crisis period, in 1981. JEL Classification: J71; J21; J20.

Keywords: São Paulo; gender inequality; sexism; sexual division of labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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